[600MRG] Free standing verticals

[Warren Ziegler]

Ben,
  A few possibilities:

1) Feed your 80 or 160 meter dipole as a top loaded vertical. Tie the
feeders together resonate with a loading coil at the base (tap it for 50
ohms) and feed it against ground.
2) An on ground dipole. I have been using a 470' dipole laying on the
ground fed with a 4:1 balun (50:200 ohms). Not as effective as vertical T
but not that bad either.
3) A loop in the vertical plane. On 137kHz I have a vertical made up of
500' of RG-214 with the center conductor and shield shorted together. I
resonate it with Mica caps and a vacuum variable and have a toroidal
transformer that brings it up to 50 ohms.

73 Warren

On Sun, Feb 4, 2018 at 7:11 PM, Ben Gelb <ben at gelbnet.com> wrote:

> My neighbor is taking down my antenna tree ... possibly this week :(.
>
> Its actually the right thing - the tree is very unbalanced and needs to
> go. But it means my undersized antenna will be even smaller (gone) soon...
>
> Seems like I may need to try to get something in the air that doesn't
> require a tree or permanent support structure. I can probably fashion some
> kind of vertical pole out of cheap materials, but imagine it will require a
> lot of guys to remain vertical - which I'd kind of like to avoid since I
> don't have a lot of room for guys.
>
> Any suggestions from this group?
>
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73 Warren K2ORS
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